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Oil Spill Detection And Contingency Planning Using Radar Imagery and GIS [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
Shipping casualties often resulted in serious accidental spills as experienced in the Straits of Malacca in the past decade. Operational remote sensing and geographic information system (GIS) are important tools for oil spill research and development ...
Assilzadeh, Hamid
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Use of bamboo fiber in oil water separation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
One of the environmental issues facing the society is the separation of oil from water in emulsions. Oily wastewater enters into the environment through many ways such as oil spill as well as from the industry.
Adhithya, N, Das, A, Goel, Mukesh
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Consequences of oil spills: a review and framework for informing planning

open access: yesEcology and Society, 2014
As oil transportation worldwide continues to increase, many communities are at risk of oil spill disasters and must anticipate and prepare for them. Factors that influence oil spill consequences are myriad and range from the biophysical to the social. We
Stephanie E. Chang   +3 more
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Real-Time Economic Analysis and Policy Development during the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill [PDF]

open access: yes
The 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill posed near-term economic risks to the Gulf of Mexico region and raised questions about appropriate policies to mitigate catastrophic oil spill risks.
Aldy, Joseph E.
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Decision support system for emergency management of oil spill accidents in the Mediterranean Sea [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
This paper presents an innovative web-based decision support system to facilitate emergency management in the case of oil spill accidents, called WITOIL (Where Is The Oil).
Agostini, Paola   +10 more
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Proceedings of the Workshop on Government Oil Spill Modeling [PDF]

open access: yes
Oil spill model users and modelers were brought together for the purpose of fostering joint communication and increasing understanding of mutual problems.
Bishop, J. M.
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Hindcasting and Validation of Mumbai Oil Spills using GNOME [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Oil spill trajectory forecasting became mandatory for providing advisory services to the regulatory authorities during the event of oil spill, for planning their remediation and clean up measures.
Balakrishnan Nair, TM   +3 more
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DNA adducts in fish following an oil spill exposure [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
On 12 December 1999, one third of the load of the Erika tanker, amounting to about 10,000 t crude oil flowed into sea waters close to the French Atlantic Coast.
A. Amat   +36 more
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Targeted Reflection-Waveform Inversion of Experimental Ground-Penetrating Radar Data for Quantification of Oil Spills Under Sea Ice [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Rapid spill detection and mapping are needed with increasing levels of oil exploration and production in the Arctic. Previous work has found that ground-penetrating radar (GPR) is effective for qualitative identification of oil spills under, and ...
Babcock, Esther L.   +3 more
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Effects of oil spill cleanup strategy on the transport and fate of oil spilled in the Penglai 19–3 oil spill accident

open access: yesApplied Ocean Research
Oil spills can result in significant economic loss, environmental contamination, and hazards to human safety. Although oil spill cleanup efforts are crucial for mitigating these impacts, the quantitative effectiveness of such strategies remains uncertain.
Lei Qin   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

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